Can you remember the last time you heard someone pounding on garbage cans, clomping on hubcaps, and thrashing the floor with brooms? If you live in certain unnamed apartment complexes, your answer might be “last night.” If you live with inventive, percussion-loving kids, your answer might be “this morning.” But…

If you’re aware the Miami music scene is made up of more than Trick Daddy, 2 Live Crew, and Pitbull, kudos for tuning into Crossfade, our little music blog. Not that we can take credit for introducing you to absolutely all local singers, rockers, rappers, and troubadours, but — ahem…

Hey, you, under the rock, there’s a really cool festival every year that brings short plays to Miami. It’s called Summer Shorts, and it includes productions for the young’uns (Shorts 4 Kids), some that are simply awesome and dramatic or hilarious (Signature Shorts), and others so dirty they should bear…

To date, the porn industry presents the most compelling argument for discarding the oft-repeated rule about not mixing business with pleasure. If Hef had followed this rule, we’d never have Playboy (and there’s no existence bleaker than a life without tastefully raunchy spreads featuring top-heavy bunnies.) Support the U.S.’s cash…

We don’t need to tell you why you should spend a little time at a spa — just ask the calluses on your feet and the golf ball-size knots chillin’ on your upper back. Maybe they’re there because of the time you spend hunched over the computer on your never-ending…

The streets outside Moroccan eatery Tazin are usually lined with lux modern whips, far from the camel you might see tethered outside a North African resto serving the same cuisine. But the glittery people queued up to get inside might not be able to handle the sight of a furry,…

Few celebs can brag that they’ve hit rock bottom like Britney Spears. Her oh-so public breakdown included a scalping, drunken matrimony, and assault with an umbrella. We don’t think that paparazzo was really screaming “Hit me baby one more time,” Brit. Her antics were better suited to some rock star…

You’ve surely heard the theory that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, and considering that Mars is an unpredictable planet that spouts juices at the most inopportune moments, and Venus is named for the Roman goddess of love, it kinda makes sense. The battle of the sexes…

A wise man once asked, “If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?” We say, because love fades; crotchless panties lose only their elastic. And since Victoria and Frederick have the shopping mall market on lock, hit the uber-luxurious Vizcaya Museum and Gardens and witness the first couture undies…

Blockbusters, megaplexes, and gargantuan vats of butter-soaked popcorn have turned the cinema experience from a cozy cultural outing to a journey into the belly of the beast. (An economical beast without a soul, that is.) The theatres and festivals which dare to display the reels that can’t score the hundred…

Some think of it as nothing more than a glorified strut down an empty walkway, but a closer look reveals that fashion shows are pure theatrics. From the perfectly sculptured figures — also known as “models” — down to the clock which times each entrance and every wardrobe change, it’s…